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New York, June 12, 2012--The Committee to Protect
Journalists condemns the Ivorian police's assault on a journalist on June 5 and
calls on authorities to ensure the officers are brought to justice.

Two officers attacked Cybèle
Athangba, a reporter with the daily La Nouvelle, while
she was covering a protest
of about 100 police officers in front of the police headquarters in the economic
capital, Abidjan, according to local journalists and news reports.Athangba was among three journalists
who were interviewing officers protesting the alleged embezzlement of funds that
had been deducted from their salaries since 2006 to pay for their housing.